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...then dropped it immediately to a 31 1/2, which it kept throughout the body of the race. By the midpoint in the course the Crimson had a lead of a length and a half on both the Middles and the Quakers and increased it gradually. In the closing sprint Navy pulled a half length ahead of Penn and finished second to the Crimson in the time of 6:45. Penn's time...
...Tigers also won the freshman heavy race, with Harvard second and Tech last. In the J.V. race, the Crimson won easily over Princeton, but Tech never finished after catching a crab in the final sprint. Three Crimson crews swept the 150 regatta held prior to the heavy races, beating Tech and Tabor Academy...
...lighter (by 40 Ibs.) Cambridge shell jetted to the lead at a 42-stroke-a-minute clip. Harvard fell gradually behind. According to Coach Bolles's strategy, his crew was to conserve its strength at first, catch up with Cambridge in an all-out final sprint. But by the time Harvard made its bid, the smooth-stroking Cambridge "fast foot" had run away with the race. The blue-tipped oars of Cambridge flashed across the finish line almost two full lengths ahead of the pride of the U.S. Eastern crews. Boston and M.I.T. puffed in Harvard's wake...
...varsity race, the Crimson jumped to a half-length lead on the opening sprint and increased it to two-lengths by the Massachusetts Avenue bridge with a 28 stroke. They won going away by three lengths in 7:57. Dartmouth was never in the race, and finished four lengths behind Tech...
...lengths behind, in what seemed like a second race, B.U. sked out M.I.T., the crew which last year was the only boat to beat the Crimson and was the Eastern sprint champion. Teach's coach, Jim McMillin, seemed keenly disappointed by the loss...